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Theatre:

ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΠΟΤΑΜΙΤΗΣ
Ο ΙΔΕΟΠΟΙΟΣ

En Tipis Publications, Nicosia, 2008, ISBN: 978-9963654581, pp.142, p/b, €

Avraamides (Christos), Theatre, Livani Publishing, Athens, 2001, pp.224, numerous illustrations, p/b, large format, £20

Music & Dance:

Vahan Bedelian

Antranik Dakesian

Published in Beirut, Lebanon, 2004, pp.231, p/b, Armenian language only, CY£8.40/€14.36

Biography of Vahan Bedelian 1894-1990, violinist and teacher to many generations of Cypriot musicians.

Donizetti's CATERINA CORNARO
Queen of Cyprus

Music CD
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
British Youth Opera Orchestra
Chorus: The Vasari Singers

Η ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΗ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΜΟΙ ΥΜΝΟΙ

Πρακτικά Συνεδρίου, Λευκωσία, 6 Μαϊου 2005

Κέντρο Μελετών Ιεράς Μονής Κύκκου - Σχολή Βυζαντινής Μουσικής Ιεράς Μονής Κύκκου, Λευκωσία, 2006, ISBN: 9963645240, Greek edition only, pp.139, h/b, d/j, CY£

Proceedings of the Symposium held in Nicosia on 6th May 2005 on Byzantine Music and Resurrection Hymns of the Greek Orthodox Church.

KYPRIAKA EROTIKA
15 Traditional songs of Cyprus for solo guitar

Faidros Kavallaris

Nicosia, 2006, ISBN: 9963655122 (set) / 9963655157 (Vol.1), pp.53, large format, p/b, CY£14.20

Kypriaka Erotika is a cycle for solo guitar pieces based on traditional Cyprus phones, more specifically, tarditional Cypriot songs whose theme is eros and its passions, the joy and pain for love.

Also 2 cd set - CY£23.00
CD 1: 15 peaces for solo guitar played by Dimitris Regginos
CD 2: 16 peaces of the "phones" and the songs (Faidros Kavallaris, voice)

XENAKIS

Nouritza Matossian

Moufflon Publications, Nicosia, 2005, ISBN: 9963642225, pp.359, p/b, CY£16.80

Iannis Xenakis revolutionized post-war music more forcefully than any composer of the 20th Century. Having escaped wartime Greece to Paris under sentence of death, he became one of Le Corbusier's chief architects, and a pioneer of the computer age in music and the arts. Milan Kundera named him ‘the prophet of insensibility’. An outsider and radical thinker, he freed the sound spectrum from western scales. He combined geometric architecture and music based on natural principles, probability mathematics, science and philosophy. The first to compose with computers, he invented ‘stochastic music’, harnessed the chaos theory, and created a bright, boundless aesthetic in music. Shunned by contemporaries, he created over 150 vast compositions imbued with elemental passion, and brilliantly reinvented the landscape of music forever.

Since it was first published in 1981, Nouritza Matossian’s highly perceptive book on Xenakis has helped students, musicians and audiences appreciate his music. She shares his Greek culture and interest in philosophy, and has chronicled vital discoveries in his work. A reserved man, he spoke frankly to her about the mysteries and methods of his compositions, and his relationships with Varese, Messiaen, Le Corbusier and Boulez.

After his death, his prophecy that computers, science and art would converge makes this book essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the digital revolution of our millennium. Matossian’s well-researched biography is an unrivalled classic on modern music. This newly revised edition is liberally illustrated with musical, architectural and personal photographs, sketches and scores, and a previously unpublished interview.

Nouritza Matossian, born in Cyprus.  Her first book, Xenakis was followed by a BBC2 documentary.  Her biography Black Angel, on the life of the Armenian painter Arshile Gorky, inspired the movie Ararat.

External links:     New website to celebrate new edition of Xenakis  www.iannisxenakis.com
                              Artist Profiles on BBC website - Xenakis   www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/xenakis.shtml
                               Xenakis - Architect in Sound. Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London, 7-9 October

Cyprus, First Impressions

Carol Barnett

Cyprus: First Impressions is a sonic scrapbook of composer Carol Barnett’s trip to Cyprus in the fall of 1999, and an affectionate homage to Theofanis G. Stavrou, Russian history professor and director of the Modern Greek Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. Liberally laced with elements of Cypriot folk song, Barnett’s music mirrors the moods evoked by its various literary influences--love for a favorite aunt, the joy of setting out on a journey, loneliness and the loss of friends, and the deep and intractable divisions of the island.

The title work, for alto flute and strings, is a collage of Nicosia street sounds: ice-cream vendors, muezzin calls from the minarets, the ubiquitous Cypriot wedding song. A book of descriptive sketches by Cypriot author George Philippou Pierides is the inspiration for the three-movement flute/cello/piano trio Vignettes, After Pierides. Ithaka, for baritone and guitar, is a setting of Constantine Cavafy’s poem of the same name. With a poem by modern Greek poet George Seferis, it also serves as the inspiration for Mythical Journeys, for flute and guitar. Fantasies on four Greek Cypriot folk songs comprise the Cyprian Suite for concert band.

Performers include members of the Minnesota Orchestra, the University of Minnesota Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and some of the best freelance musicians in the Twin Cities. Barnett teaches composition at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.

CYPRUS
FOR ALTO FLUTE AND STRINGS (CD)

Carol Barnett

To celebrate Women in Music
Commisioned by Sigma Alpha Lota, Minneapolis / St. Paul Alumnae Chapter

Cypriot Voice -Tracing back through the years - Traditional Songs of Cyprus
(Στ' αγνάρκα των τζαιρών - Παραδοσιακά Τραγούδια της Κύπρου)

Michalis Tτerlikkas

Michalis Tterlikkas is an acclaimed interpreter of demotic songs of Cyprus. Endowed with a vocal talent, he turned his attention to this kind of music and has become known throughout the island through an abundance of appearances on radio and television programmes, as well as in folkloric events. His constant occupation with the genre has given Michalis both experience and love, resulting in the current endeavor of compiling a comprehensive overview of the demotic poetry of Cyprus, its origins and its functions. Feeling now an integral part of a long tradition, he endeavors to preserve it, re-create it, propagate it, and ultimately deliver it alive and living to those who will follow. The effort of the by-now experienced Michalis Tterlikkas revolves around these very goals. In days of old, when life passed by limited and unchanging, popular lore constituted a living reality, and for this reason no one felt the need to record it. The turn to popular lore, in the way the term is used today, containing elements from the past, was provided by romanticism, as opposed to classicism. It was foreigners who first delved into the popular lore of the Creek people, especially its spiritual aspect, recording and documenting it, and eventually compiling collections of demotic songs and tales. When the scientific study of folklore was established in Greece, Greeks themselves began to undertake the study of popular lore and all its aspects, material, social and spiritual. Nikolaos Politis, through his voluminous work, became the father of this new science in Greece. More particularly, and by studying the language and folklore of the Greek people, the Athens Academy and other scholars undertook to refute Falmereier's theory, which did not accept the historic continuity of the Hellenes, through the discovery of ancient attributes still present in modern times. Research into the demotic songs of Cyprus began quite early on, with examples of this particular genre encountered as far back as in the manuscripts of Dionysios Solomos. However, the person who, from the mid- 19th century, devoted himself to collecting and collating the monuments to the spiritual life of the Cypriot people was Greek educationalist Athanasios Sakellarios, who published his work in two large volumes under the title "Ta Kypriaka", assisted in his monumental work by the then scholars of Lamaka. Athanasios Sakellarios'example was followed by a Cypriot scholar, Yeorgios Louka. noted for his "Literary Visits". Since then, a multitude of scientists, philologists, teachers and compilers has delved into the popular spiritual tradition of Cyprus. In due course, the studies also included the music of demotic poetry. The rapid change of our way of life, globalisation and the abandonment of tradition elicit an equal and opposite reaction to delve into the past: [he tradition, roots and identity of our people. Interpreters of demotic music today satisfy this demand, and it is on this very quest that Michalis Tterlikkas has embarked through his interpretations, among which is the "Cypriot Voice -Tracing back through the years", which constitutes the culmination of his efforts. (From the Foreword by Bishop of Kykko Nikiphoros)

Των Γεννών τζιαι της Λαμπρής
Κυπριακά και άλλα Ελληνικά Κάλαντα
(Cypriot and Greek Christmas Carols)

Michalis Tterlikkas

Music CD

Mindikkis (George), Cyprus Dances, G.Mindikkis Edition, London, pp.64 with music for dances in European stuff notation, p/b, large format, £7

Michaelides (Solon) The Music of Ancient Greece, An Encyclopaedia, Faber and Faber, London, 1978, pp.365, numerous illustrations, 10 b/w plates, h/b, dust jacket, o/p, £120

Papadopoulou-Lamari (Eleni), Solon Michaeilides, His Life and Work, Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Nicosia, Greek Edition, pp.111, numerous illustrations, p/b, £8

Papadoupoulou (Stelios), Traditional Songs and Dances of Cyprus, Arch.Makarios III Foundation, Nicosia, 1993, Greek Edition, pp.226 with songs in European stuff notation, p/b, large format, £20

Tompolis (Sozos), Traditional Cyprian Songs and Dances, Nicosia, 1980, bi-lingual (Greek and English), pp.162 with songs in European stuff notation, p/b, large format, £25

Music CD – Cyprian and other Greek calandas, Religion Songs and Hymns of Cyprus, Michales Terlikkas, £12

Music CD – 20 Most Beautiful Cypriot Songs of Achileas Limbouridis, £12

Cyprus - Popular Music, 7 LP’s in separate case with large format booklet in Greek and English, Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, 1988, £50 (also CD edition, £44)

Cypriot Acritic Songs, Areti Kasapi & Kostas Charalambides, LP, £10

Shadow Puppetry:

Karaghiozis
Shadow Theatre in Cyprus

Margarita Demetriou - Protopapa

The Cyprus Folk Art Museum - Society of Cypriot Studies, Nicosia, 2004. ISBN: 9963860230, pp.91, p/b, large format, bi-lingual (Greek and English), CY£12.60

This book follows the history of Karaghiozis - the art of shadow theatre, from the beginning of the 20th century until today. It contains chapters on Karaghiozis' repertoire, songs, puppets, biographies of Cypriot puppet-players and catalogue of puppets in Cyprus Folk Art Museum.

A,Yayannos, Ar. Yayannos, J. Dingli, The World of Karaghiozis, Volume I: Set, pp.249, h/b; Volume II: Figures, pp.312, h/b; Ermis, Athens, 1976, bi-lingual (Greek and English),  numerous illustrations, £40

Iangouli K.G., The Art of Karaghiozis in Cyprus, Nicosia, 1982, Greek Edition, pp.123, p/b, £6

CD ROM – Karaghiozis, The Magic of Shadow Puppetry, Kostaniotis Interactive, 2001, Greek language only, text and research by Dorina Papaliou, £25

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